Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.

Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.

We know no more than we did in 1975 - and that's not good

Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.